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I^KSasoiS' SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 2 , 18 99 .

Maaonic Notes.

Maaonic Notes .

The regular Quarterly Communication of United Grand Lod ge will be held at Freemasons' Hall , on Wednesday , the 6 th instant , but the programme of business is by no means a formidable one , the prin-C 1 pal item or . the Agenda being contained in the

Report of the Board of General Purposes , and having reference to the Cambrian Lodge of Australia , No . 6 S 6 , Sydney , N . S . W . The Board expresses regret at the irregularities since June , 18 94 , committed by the said lodge ; but , at the same time , acknowledges the

great emergency under which they were committed , and now recognises the acts done by the lodge in respect of the election and initiation of members , the election and installation of Worshipful Masters , the appointment of officers , confirming in their rank or past rank all Masters and officers so elected and appointed .

Maaonic Notes.

It appears that warrants have been granted by his Royal Highness the M . W . G . Master since the Quarterly Communication on the 7 th June last for the constitution of as many as 24 new lodges . Of these eight are located in London , namely , the Harringay , No .

276 3 ; the St . Olave ' s , No . 2764 ; the" Earl's Court , No . 2765 ; the Putney Lodge , No . 2766 ; the Lord Kitchener Lodge , No . 2767 ; the Yorick , No . 2771 ; the Richard Eve , No . 2772 ; and the Lodge of Assistance , No . 2773 . Four others are located in the

Provinces , and comprise the Lindisfarne Lodge , No . 2762 , North Shields , in the Province of Northumberland : the East Surrey Lodge , No . 2769 , Oxted , in the

Province of Surrey ; the Earl of Yarborough Lodge , No . 2770 , Grimsby , Lincolnshire ; and the Legge Lodge , No . 27 S 4 , West Bromwich , in the Province of Staffordshire .

* * * The remaining 12 are all located abroad , the Royal Naval College , No . 2761 , in the District of Malta ; and the Kosmos Lodge , No . 2768 , atJohannesburg / Snd the Vernon Lodge , No . 2774 , at Doornfontein ,

both in the District of the Transvaal . But the following ninehave been added to the roll of Western Australia , namely , the Perth Lodge , No . 2775 , the Diamond Jubilee Lodge , No . 2777 , and the Duke of Albany Lodge , No . 2782 , all three in Perth ; the Richmond ,

No . 2776 , East Fremantle ; the Kalgoorlie , No . 277 8 , the Finnerty Lodge , No . 2780 , and thc Golden Square Lodge , No . 2783 , Kalgoorlie ; the Boulder Lodge , No . 2779 , Boulder ; and the Katanning Lodge , No . 2781 , Katanning . This is an unusually large

addition to make to the roll of a District in a single quarter ; but it may be that the English Craft are desirous of not being eclipsed in numbers by the lodges of the Scottish Constitution , which are very much more numerous now than they were a few years since .

* * * The regular Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons will be held at Mark Masons' Hall , Great Queen-street , on Tuesday , the 5 th instant ; but , beyond the consideration of the Report

of the General Board , and anything that may arise out of it , there is no business of importance to transact . The Report of the Board , too , contains little else than the usual statistics as to lodges and certificates granted in the Mark and Royal Ark Mariner Degrees . In

the former a warrant of constitution for the Courtenay Mark Lodge , No . 526 , North Pine , Queensland , has been granted , while 251 Mark certificates were issued during the quarter to 30 th June , raising the total number of registered Mark Master Masons to 40 , 223 .

During the same period there has been granted a warrant of constitution to the East Sussex Royal Ark Mariner Lodge , to be moored off the East Sussex Mark Lodge , No . 166 , Hastings , and 79 R . A Mariner certificates were issued , raising the total number of

registered R . A . Mariners to 6014 . Announcement is made that his Royal Highness the M . W . Grand Mark Master has appointed Bro . Sir Reginald Hanson Bart ., M . P ., Prov . G . M . M . of Middlesex , vice Bro . Col !

A . B . Cook , deceased , and Bro . F . Xavier Leon , Dist . G . M . M . of Jamaica , in succession to Bro . W . Andrews , deceased . * * *

Under thc head of the Fund of Benevolence the Board congratulates the Earl of Warwick , Prov . G . M . M . Essex , who presided as Chairman , and his Board of Stewards , on the success of the recent Mark Benevolent Fund Festival , at which a total of £ 2064

in contributions , paid and promised , was announced . It is also stated that the Earl of Euston , Pro G . Master , has kindly consented to preside at the 32 nd Festival in July , 1 9 , in aid of the same Fund , and the services ot brethren as Stewards are earnestly solicited .

A meeting of the General Committee of the West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution will be held at Freemasons' Hall , Liverpool , to-day ( Friday ) , at which the petitions of u candidates will be

considered , with a view to their names being placed on the list for election at the next Court of Governors . Of these 11 children , two are for the Educational Fund , five for the Combined Fund , and four for the Advancement Fund .

The Indian Freemason for July contains a sketch of the Masonic career of his Excellency Bru . Lord Sandhurst , Governor of Bombay , with an accompanying portrait of his lordship in his insignia of office as M . W . G . Master of all Scottish Freemasonry in India . It is manifest from the particulars furnished that Lord

Maaonic Notes.

Sandhurst , who was initiated in 1880 in United Lodge No . 1629 , takes a deep interest in all that relates to the Craft . On arriving out in Bombay , and taking up his appointment as Governor of the Presidency , he was appointed Pro District G . Master and installed in office on the 23 rd August , 18 95 . He is a Royal Arch

Mason , and a Mark Master Mason , and was installed Dist . G . Mark Master of Bombay in January , 1898 . He was perfected Rose Croix in January , 1896 , and installed M . W . Sovereign of the Bombay Chapter , No . 18 , on 28 th February , 1898 . He is also a Scottish Craft Mason , and was installed M . W . G . M . of A . S .

Freemasonry in India in the Novelty Theatre , Bombay , on 4 th June , 1897 . It is through his efforts principally that the brethren of the two Constitutions in Bombay were able to secure a capital site for their new Masoni Hall , at the laying of the foundation-stone of which he

took the chief part , and which he opened and dedicated to the purposes of Freemasonry in April of . the present year . His lordship has indeed rendered most important services to the Craft , in the presidency of which he is the Governor , and we rejoice to know that these services are appreciated as they deserve .

# * * For reasons , which , no doubt , appeared good and sufficient at the time , the Grand Lodge of New Zealand has placed in charge of the different Districts into which its jurisdiction is divided certain officers on whom it has bestowed the title of Grand

Superintendent . It seems , however , that confusion has frequently arisen owing to the similarity of the name to that of the Grand Superintendent of Works , which is an office of inferior rank in Grand Lodge . Under the English , Irish , and Scottish Constitutions the officers of corresponding rank are designated

Prov . Grand Masters , while in the United States and in sundry of the Grand Lodges in the Dominion of Canada they are known as District Deputy Grand Masters , a title which strikes us as being very appropriate , seeing that if the duties of these Grand Superintendents under the New Zealand Constitution

correspond with those of the District Deputy Grand Masters under the United States and British North American Constitutions , they are in fact Deputy Grand Masters for the Districts over which they severally preside . At all events , if the American or

Canadian title were adopted , there would be no risk of confounding the Grand Superintendent of a District with the Grand Superintendent of Works or Workings . # * *

The offices of District Grand Master and Grand Superintendent of the Punjab , which were some time since resigned by General Sir George B . Wolseley , K . C . B ., have not remained vacant for long , Lieut .-Gen . Sir Power Palmer having been chosen by his Royal Highness the M . W , Grand Master and Grand

Z . to succeed him in both capacities . Bro . Sir P . Palmer was Deputy District Grand Master under Sir Geo . Wolseley , and was installed , at 5 p . m ., as Grand Superintendent , and , at 7 p . m ., as District Grand Master , on the 29 th June last . The new Deputy Grand Master is Bro . Col . Keighley .

» » » We learn from the Freemason of Los Angelos , Cal ., that a Michigan brother recently deceased expressed a wish that the members of his lodge should partake of a supper in his memory and undertook to make provision lor the cost of the refreshment . Accordingly

after his death it was found that he had bequeathed the necessary funds to the lodge in question—Detroit , No . 2—and the 7 th June last was chosen to commemorate thc deceased in the manner he had wished , just a few "exercises" being added in order to provide the brethren with appetites that would do justice to the supper .

w * » It is not often we go out of our way to call attention to appeals by , or in behalf of , distressed Freemasons —not from any lack of sympathy with them in their misfortunes , but because the cases are numerous , and there would be no end to our recommendations . But

the circumstances recounted in our advertisement columns under the heading— "Appeal from Drum Masonic Lodge , 18 4 "—are such as to justify the hope that the appeal will be largely and generally responded to . The hostility of the Romish priesthood to Freemasonry is well known , and the Bro . James Smith , for

whom the appeal is being circulated , is both a Roman Catholic and a Freemason of 24 years' standing , his present critical circumstances being due to his refusal to abjure Freemasonry at the commands of the clergy and the solicitations of relatives . We wish the appeal all possible success .